This PhD analyzes how resistance to conscription configured just a social movement around anti-militarist character broadly. This requires a comparative analysis with other international organizations and movements refractory, and the stages and conditions for the emergence of anti-militarist movement in countries like Italy and France is performed. This analysis helps to understand the general dynamics that influenced the development of resistance to conscription and its configuration as a social movement.
Moreover, a thorough analysis of how the circumstances in dictatorship determined the offset for the emergence of this social movement in the case of Catalonia and Spain, compared to other Western European countries is made.
Finally, this research addresses a thorough analysis of how resistance develops to compulsory military service during the seventies, linked to religious and non-violent struggle for the rights and freedoms motivation to go after becoming the decade next in a space of more diverse political struggle, where anarchists and socialists were the motivations that cornered mostly they antimilitarists groups. This research also describes the different anti-military groups that were generated in the Spanish and Catalan territory, their stages of development, internal debates and internal and external activity developed not only against conscription, also against NATO military budgets The military jurisdiction, etc. Finally it explains how these members of what was the anti-militarist movement groups maintained a strong relationship with other related social movements and became places of political activism outside - and often against - of political parties.